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How many emails clients do you know that don’t need access to your mail?
by ymolodtsov 8y ago
How many emails clients do you know that don’t need access to your mail?
- amelius 8y agoDoes that matter? Why would you give, instead of just Google, two companies access to your emails?
- skybrian 8y agoWell, 2+N companies depending on what servers the people you correspond with use. That's the nature of a federated protocol.
- DarwinMailApp 8y agoHa ha. Very clever spin, and it's the truth!
- amelius 8y agoHowever ... the larger N, the weaker the argument. Because each of the participants has only a fraction of your e-mails.
- DarwinMailApp 8y agoThat is a fair point, amelius! However, I won't be giving any third parties access to DarwinMail ;)
- ddalex 8y agoThe better question here is: how many websites (with their own servers!) did you give full access to your email inbox? I didn't give it out to anybody else that Google. Google I trust implicitly because they host the server, so the email is already read by them before reaching the interface. Thunderbird stores email locally doesn't need to push it out. I wouldn't give Facebook ever access to my email account. Why should I give Darwin access AS A WEBSITE when it's not clear to me that they NEED to run their SERVER? If the interaction is done through JS entirely and the whole thing runs in the browser between me and Google, they can easily pack it as an extension.
- ymolodtsov 8y agoBecause there's no other way to properly implement instant push notifications for one thing. All modern email clients (like Spark, etc.) do that.